When setting up a new A Record / Host Record there's an option to enter the "host", and then one to enter the "IP". What are the options available for host?
I've seen www, @, *... are there others? I ...

My company's domain name (a .com) was registered with Demon Internet years ago. I use their nameservers so they provide my DNS. If I ever want to change a DNS record I have to email them and hope they ...

I already have two hosts pointing to my machine, and I am trying to add a third "webmail.user.domain.com, but I receive DNS failure lookup. I created a configuration file for "webmail" with the same ...

I am currently building a website for a client who purchased their own domain and email on Godaddy. They have been using the email for a considerable amount of time now and only recently decided to ...

Let's pretend that I'm hosting a very big and popular website. Let's also pretend that I have many web servers spread out all around the world. Each web server containing identical files.
If I make ...

During a recent audit we became aware of several users who have not set their DNS records to correctly point to our name servers.
Since we don't control the domain names of our users directly, we're ...

I just bought a domain and pointed it to the Tumblr IP address to use it as a custom domain. Tumblr says my domain isn't pointed to Tumblr. When I go to the page through my home internet connection it ...

I would like that when I place in an email client I don't put manually the servers and ports, carddav and caldav.
There is the SRV records.
For example, in my domain I use Google for Works.
And for ...

One of my customers has recently had their site reviewed against best practice for security, SEO, end-user experience etc, and interestingly one of the points highlighted in the final report was that ...

I registered a domain with a .gd-extention on uniteddomains and want it to transfer to amazon web servers (aws).
The problem is that aws has 4 dns-domains for the website (for example .com and .net), ...

as I discovered recently a lot of domains of a certain organisation all have their A-Record set to the IP of a server that I own. The server currently does only host security auditing tools and does ...

I moved my domain from GoDaddy to Google Domains and the hosting to VULTR. I used BIND9 when it was registered on GoDaddy and hosted on Vultr. I am not sure how to proceed with setting up the domain ...

I see loads of tutorials about naked domain to www domain redirects, but what if I want to do it the other way around (www.example.com -> example.com)?
My app is on Google Apps with Flask deployed, ...

I want to redirect email from domain1.com to domain2.com. The problem is that the mail for domain2.com is hosted by Google Apps. All my employees have two email accounts: employeeX@domain1.com hosted ...

A spam site is using something like an A record to point to my site's ip address. As a result, if you go to spam-site.com it displays my-legit-site.com. Obviously, the same goes for any page within ...

I have a few domains where I plan to take the VPS server that hosts the content offline.
I will be keeping the domains.
What is the general best practice regarding the DNS A records?
I'm assuming once ...

I have been seeing this more and more on web sites lately. At first is though this was some artifact from development or internal process but as I see more sites with it I am beginning to assume it's ...

I have a website and looking to migrate to use Google Apps for my email. But the thing is that I'm currently using Earthlink as my mail provider for my domain name. This also goes for using Earthlink ...

I'm helping a friend out with her Rails App, and this morning the custom domain started automatically redirecting to freelancer.com instead of the App. The automatically created Heroku subdomain, i.e. ...

In Aws I am creating A ELB(Elastic Load Balancer ) for handling load over instances . my question is in previous we are use single instance and add this instance with an elastic ip . with this elastic ...

We had a domain that is bound to a country(like for UK the domains are like with somedomain.uk or for US they are like somedomain.us) and we want to change its nameservers to its subdamins for some ...

I have a VM in setup in Azure that I want to use to host multiple websites but can't figure out how to setup an A record when Azure doesn't give you a static IP.
I've created a CNAME, to map "www" - ...

I had a website at example.com. I created another website (example.hotelrunner.com) using HotelRunner and changed domains. I did that by changing the A records and CNAME at Netfirms.
Now example.com ...